ever had your 7.3 stuck???
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ever had your 7.3 stuck???
I almost had the 7.3l 2002 excursion stuck today... got me thinking what I should put in it to help in the future. Luckily this won't be a common occurrance. Dad's place is in 6 feet of water from a broken levee right now, so we put in the plate boat to check things out.... Launching was not an issue, unhooked the boat, powered off the back, horsed the trailer out and we were on our way. Coming in, thwe boat on the trailer in the same place we launched from was enough to push off the shoulder and lock 1 side of the boat trailer,,, it even slid the rear end of the excursion sideways......, slid the boat off and put it on the hard way at another location. However, it was a bit of a delicate place to be ,not easy to get anything in if we had hung it up much harder. We were putting in and out of a road ditch not neccesarily designed to be an underwater boat ramp. Hopefully I never have to do it again. I swear the rollers were 18-24" tall on about 20' centers....more like an ocean than the mouth of the Iowa river at the Mississippi. 17,000 acre lake.... big water.
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i almost stalled out my 97 auto the other day. i had about 19,500 pounds or more behind me. i bush hog for hire and was traveling to bushhog, and the end of the road i use to go to the property was closed for construction. it is the only way i know how to get in there. so, i go down the gravel part for a ways, and then i come to a 12+ inch ledge, where the pavement starts. i thought my trailer would hang on the truck when i tried to cross, but, i decided to try it. i had to lock it in 4x4 low side and crawl up to it. all went well till i got my trailer tires up to the ledge. it almost wouldnt do it. there was gravel dust on the asphalt so i spun some on it. i wound up having to get little of a run at it, but keep the whole truck on the pavement, not to loose traction. i got it up oover up luckily, without breaking anything.
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oh, and one time we had 15 big roles of hay on a trailer behind our 99 stroker 6 speed and had to get a push from the tractor to make it up a BIG grassy hill with dew on it, it couldnt get traction, just spun on top of the grass. and once we had to unhook a loaded cattle trailer and hook it to a two ton international because our 97 big block 460 auto stalled out cause the trailer was belly hung in a big ditch cause some nut ran us outta the road. and we hung up the 460 with a load of fence posts in the mud and it took a dozer to drag it out. but nothin other than that.
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Sure, I've been stuck several times. Usually I've got my tractor nearby to pull myself out. A couple of times I've had to get help from others. Every time I get stuck I swear next time I'm gonna get a 4wd. I'm still waiting on this one to wear out. I guess we'll see.
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well lets just say I dug two trench a foot and a half deep in a hay field pulling out a dmax. . . a couple times it didn't move too quickly but it never stopped moving. I will say without the nittos it might have been a different story.
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Well now that you said that your goin to have the first 1 billion mile 7.3
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Got stuck at the outerbanks back in May. Had the tire pressure up way too high and sunk down on the beach. It wouldn't go forward just reverse . Once I aired down to about 20 psi, it jumped right up on top though. No way I was letting the Chevy guy that stopped to see if I needed help tow me out.
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On second thought, that's not too bad for 256k on the odometer.